Are You Letting Your Kids Off the Hook for Healthy Eating This Holiday Season?

Candy canes are delicious ... and full of sugar. Credit: Patrick Norman, Corbis

Holiday time is food time! It seems like starting with Thanksgiving and going through New Year's Day, there is a never-ending bounty of delicious and fattening foodstuffs.

But! We want our children to practice healthy eating, right? We want them to make smart choices. We want them ... to ... I'm sorry, are those chocolate Santas half-price? How many do you have left? 10? I'll take 8. Now, what were we talking about?

As important as healthy eating habits are, some will say that it is equally important to let kids be kids. Sometimes that means pigging out on sweets. Or does it?

What are you doing? Are you letting your kids off the healthy eating hook for the holidays? Or are the rules the same in your house no matter what time of year it is?

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Just keep in mind sugars lower the immune system. We always keep on hand the Airborne and Emergen-C drink packets. They're easy to travel with (we even keep a few in the car) and they're a great boost of Vitamin C. There were some free samples being offered this month Http://bit.ly/dailysample The variety of flavors is pretty great too.

You the know their is more to the holidays and Christmas season than food. There is a deeper meaning to the holidays than food. So no, I will not allow them to think or learn that its all about the food.

What? You mean that God didn't come to Earth as a tiny human for a greater purpose than for us to have an excuse to stuff ourselves full of tasty goodies?!

We'll celebrate and indulge...we'll celebrate Jesus' birth, remember and be thankful that He saved us and we'll have a grand Christmas. We'll eat junky food and healthy food because there's no reason not to.